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The Modern Spectator is a literary sports journal. It takes a broad look at our culture by focusing on the games we watch and play. The Spectator features news, reviews, and essays on the history and future of sport and society.

Austin Kelley, the editor and czar, has written for The Nation, The New Yorker, and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, but he roots for the Eagles, the Flyers, the Sixers, the Phillies, Villanova, and Barcelona. He also enjoys a good game of bocce. Contact Austin.

Mike Stevens, contributing editor, is a freelance writer living in New York. As a child, he rooted for Jose Cruz’s Astros and Earl Campbell’s Oilers. Later as a teen, he found himself more than 500 miles from any professional sports team. Consequently he’s now a fan of reference books, country music and dining. Contact Mike.

Marshall Hopkins is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. His work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Contact Marshall.

Brian Schwartz lives in Brooklyn, but spends a lot of time at N.Y.U., where he’s a teacher in the Expository Writing Program and a student in the English Education program. He has an MFA in creative writing from U.C. Irvine, and his fiction has appeared recently in Washington Square and The Seattle Review.

David Andrew Stoler is a journalist and writing teacher in New York City. He can be reached here.

Stefan Tornquist is the Research Director for a marketing research company. He has been quoted in the Wall St. Journal, Business Week and the like, but he still dreams of forays into fiction and poetry. His most recent triumph: an award-winning haiku in 1979. Stefan is a gambling guru in the mold of the great anvil guru, Wile E. Coyote.

Ryan Sloan’s work has appeared in Nerve, LA Weekly, Opium Magazine and
Painted Bride Quarterly_ among others. Ryan recently received his MFA
in fiction at New York University, and he is (just like you) at work
on a novel. For more, check out sloanerisms.blogspot.com.

Tyson Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at SUNY Stony Brook. His research focuses on culture, gender, media, and social psychology. He has a webpage
and can be contacted here.

Dan Kaufman is a musician and writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife. He leads the punk-cabaret band, Barbez, and is currently working on a new album of songs inspired by the poet Paul Celan. He can be reached here.

Emily Richards is a magazine editor, writer and cartoonist living in New York. Her work appears in The New Yorker and at her wonderful fashion blog What To Wear This Very Second.

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